Astronomy Quote by Emily Dickinson

The trees may wish for quiet, but the wind will not subside.

— Anonymous

I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I hear the wind among the trees playing the celestial symphonies.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they…

— Linda Hogan

Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost…

— Maggie O'Farrell

A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits…

— Walt Whitman

“There is a steady dripping sound of yesterday’s rain sliding down branches and splashing on rocks, into the stream, or onto the soft ground.…

— Erica Crouch

“I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Above his monotonous voice one could hear, now and again, a little wind stray through the drying leaves of the trees. A leaf or…

— Frederic Manning

Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through…

— Virginia Woolf

“... or in the forest; mingling various walks with the splash and murmur of the waves, and the solemn wind-anthem among the tree-tops.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The scarcely audible whisper of soft airs through the trees morning and evening, rain drops falling gently, and the murmur of drowsy surges far…

— Isabella L. Bird